2 Responses to Greenpeace’s “Nuclear Reaction” blog

Is it even possible to run industrial civilization on renewable energy alone though? We started using fossil fuels in the 18th century (largely because the use of the previous fuel – firewood – was becoming unsustainable), and the world only had a seventh of today’s population then…

I don’t use the word “renewable” since I regard it as meaningless. For example, is solar power “renewable”? The sun’s hydrogen is being burnt to make it, and is not being renewed, so I guess not. OTOH, it won’t run out for another few billion years.

I suspect it probably is possible to run society on a mixture of wind water and solar power.